Talk:Grady Booch

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Last paragraph

I'm removing the last paragraph as it was lifted verbatim from http://www.neumont.edu/public/about/grady_booch.htm. Fikus 21:56, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Photo

There's a photo of Grady Booch at http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/607781 . More precisely, it is at http://www.developer.com/ew_img/common/content/article/19990112/gm_booch/booch.gif

Actually, I find an even better photo of Grady Booch at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/bios/booch.html . And the URL for the photo, itself, is http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/bios/img/booch04.jpg . Now as to the question of gaining permission to use either one of these, I wouldn't even know the protocols. But I have moved the ball this far down the field. There are two photos of the man. I would recommend using the second of these two assuming that permission can be obtained.

--C-U RPCV 07:01, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copy-paste registration

In this edit text is copy/paset here from the IBM 1130 and Booch method article. -- Mdd (talk) 14:05, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ADA at the DOD

The article doesn't mention that Grady worked at the DOD in the capacity of collecting chances for the preliminary ADA language specifications. How do I know? Because I reported a flaw in the ADA language to DOD and the person that ended up handling the issue turned out to be Grady Booch. I don't know for sure, but I think he was in the military at the time.

At the time he told me this flaw was not on the books because he thumbed through the report log as I sat on the phone and he didn't find any reference to it. He told me I had found "a live one". I asked him to send me a letter giving me credit for discovering the flaw and he said that he would.

I later contacted him and asked him why I hadn't gotten my letter. He said that he given credit for the change to a large company that I think probably did business with DOD because he asked them if they had noticed flaw, and they said yes. However, I feel I should have gotten credit for it because it was not on the books when I reported it to the DOD Ada office, and because I noticed it by reading through a preliminary ADA specification document using only my personal observation. My personal read on the situation is that I didn't get credit for it because of political reasons, although I have no proof of this. 99.27.202.167 (talk) 06:42, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]